1958

Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole, Gibson gives us the Flying V. In football we can now score an extra two points, and Legos blocks first hit the street. 50 inches of snow on Mason Dixon line, no one makes baseball’s Hall of Fame. This new Velcro stuff will hold on to things just fine, Alaska is newest state name. Faulkner calls public schools “future babysitters”, “Volare” named song of the year. Eisenhower’s world broadcast comes to us from space, his message is heard loud and clear. Women in the UK serve in the House of Lords, there’s moving sidewalks in Texas. Explorer I hits space, but II is a big dud, Ted Williams spits in fan’s faces. In Russia, Laika’s body meets a fiery end, when Sputnik II falls with a blaze. Bank of America sends out their credit cards, causing a new kind of world craze. 9000 scientists call for nuclear ban, we test 100 times this year. Nuclear bomb can fall on a house in Morse Bluff, but baseball players must wear protective gear. Vanguard I is the first to measures the Earth’s shape, Sugar Ray is now five-time champ. George joins Paul and John to create the Quarrymen, Elvis Presley goes to boot camp. NASA is created to run new moon program, Clif Notes now used in the high school. Alan Freed gets kicked off the job up in Boston, The Smurfs make their TV Debut. Eddie Arcaro rides his 4000th winner, ‘Catch a Falling Star’ turns to gold. Boris Pasternak refuses his Nobel Prize, the Khrushchev reign starts to take hold. An F-104 flies to record altitude, at speeds that have never been seen. Seawolf remains below the Artic pole longer, than anyone has ever been. After 26 years the stamp goes up one cent, Huckelberry is the new TV star. Syria and Egypt decided to unite, Nasser heads the new U.A.R. The world is moving along at such breakneck speed, it’s hard to know what’s going on. Meanwhile I’m still here in Wakenda Missouri, crawling in diapers out on the lawn.